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...Best Animated Short), the new film proves that this endearingly odd couple can carry a feature-length film with easy poise. Newcomers will be charmed by the characters, then drawn into the suspense as a man is transformed into a killer bunny in a scene scarier--and even funnier--than Oliver Reed's hirsute metamorphoses in the old Hammer Studios' horror movie The Curse of the Werewolf. And the kids will giggle with pride as they spot the furtive gags, like the magazine hidden by the town's vicar (Pro Nun Wrestling) or the name of the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dog And His Man | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...talk of cops, like that of medical students and war correspondents, tends to be gruesome, outrageous and, in a brutal sort of way, funny. No doubt it gets slightly funnier when there is a civilian around whose leg can be pulled. Interviewer Mark Baker, however, clearly knows how to nod and outwait the baloney as he plays the journalist's strongest card, which is his knowledge that people have a powerful urge to explain themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Blues | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...jokes at Summers’ expense, to be honest, could be funnier. But it’s more significant that they’re being made at all. Prior to Summers’ dog days, swipes at the president had generally been as harmless as coy plays on his name. Now he has firmly established himself as prominent fodder for satire. Such is the innate difference between this year and last...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dog Days of Summers | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Memoirs. It seems everyone has one. But there's something about a well-told life story: it can be as gripping as a murder mystery or funnier than a farce. Here are five lives worth observing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 5 Memoirs That You Won't Forget | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...there are two problems with self-referentiality: for one, because of its essential solipsism, it’s often funnier for the small circle of people on the inside than for the listener. Also, music that simply revolves around itself risks having no point but self-indulgence. Which...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: A + P | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

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